[alice]

Deus, seriously, you'll love paranoia agent. It's basically the serialized version of paprika with a kid and a bat instead of a fugly old guy who can't walk.

[chevluh]

Meanwhile Gurren-Lagann (now at episode 21) continues to build up its awesomeness.

[psiga]

Currently hitting up...



After Touran posted...



I've finished 8 episodes so far. Feelings are:
Damn it, 14 year old girls who are taller than boys and developed like they're 16+.
Damn it, unyielding engrish, both spoken and sung.
Damn it, don't make me switch to the dub, oh god this is brutal.
Damn it, there's a long and uncomfortable sub-plot about the main character being bullied.
Damn it, stop singing ~hoooooor moooon sweii~

I will continue watching to the end, but it's not gonna get in my top ten or anything.

Next up on my queue:
AMV Hell: Movie
Planetes
Paranoia Agent
Gurren-Lagann (when it's complete)
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[Intentionally Wrong]

I watched Excel Saga last week. I do not have much love for anime, but that was kind of fun--I caught a lot of references even without having seen the original works.
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[psiga]

Saw my first episode of Excel Saga last night, coincidentally. Didn't like it much. It's snappy and wacky and intense and whatever, yet also it lacked anything for me to grow fond of.
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[PianoMap]

Psiga Beck isn't a very good anime at all.

It's a great manga, I think. It's just a bad idea to adapt it to a format with sound for... obvious reasons. Plus they try to fit the entire next major plot arc into the last episode with a really crappy gimmick. :(

Also, I don't see Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei on that list!
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[Intentionally Wrong]

Yeah, I can't say I found the first couple episodes very engaging, either. I'd have probably dropped it myself if I'd had anything better to do at the time, but like the other shows I've convinced myself to watch, it got a lot better the closer I got to the end.
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[rf]

[internisus]

I'm listening to the Mushishi soundtracks and realizing.....

why I like Trace Memory.

[alice]

I just watched perfect blue today and then remembered that I rented the perfect blue VHS from the library back when I was 13 and almost watched it.

[PianoMap]

[Persona-sama]

Why aren't you bitches watching Gurren Lagann, it's like the best anime ever made ever.
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[GrimmSweeper]

'Cause the first few episodes are so horrifically hard to find with ENGLISH subs. I figure I'll wait until the season is complete before downloading the entire thing.

And then my giant robot quota of this year will be filled.

In the meantime, I'm attempting to keep up with Dennou Coil.

[psiga]

BECK managed to lose me on episode 12. I'm gonna drop it. Sneer-inducing FYAD plot progressions backing up like a traffic jam.

Gonna start grabbing Planetes, soon as I find a good source.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

you can very easily get gurren lagann using stage6.divx.com's download feature. they don't have episode 15, though. grr.
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[wpham]

There's a batch torrent of Gurren Lagann 1-13 floating around!
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[Clueless Gamer]

[SplashBeats]

i caught up on so long, mr despair the other day. this is like an intelligent, beautiful, superflat(ish) excel saga! the pace is so goddamned fast, yet not so fast that it's easy to get tripped up in all the jokes and references flying at you.

the newer girls are fantastic (is hikkikiomori girl a 4chan meme yet?) and naming a hopelessly optimistic character after franz kafka rubs me the right way.

is the rest of this director's output this fantastic?

[108]

[wpham]

[psiga]

[haircute]

dudes there is a new raki*suta out right now but i wish afk would hurry up with their releases!

screw the haters!
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[G.]

[haircute]

[Gin]

I like the subs they used to have on old grainy black and white foreign movies.

[SplashBeats]

[Renfrew]

Gurren Lagann just keeps getting better and better.
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[wasted potential]

[haircute]

[psiga]

[BotageL]

[108]

[Pavement]

ALL RESPECT LOST

[psiga]

Hm. Two eps into PlanetES, kinda iffy on it. I like that it's hard sci, rather than just wacky future. But going the hard sci route means exposing the fictional setting to the relentless forward motion of real-world progress. This story is taking modern day potential and extrapolating it 70-ish years into the future, rather than even try to comprehend how different everything will be by 2075.

Which I'd look past if the character interactions were more interesting. They're only moderately interesting so far. 25 minute episodes feel longer than 25 minutes, not so much in a good way.

Also, I am slightly pissed at how difficult it has been to find a good version of this show. At first I got a widescreen version, but it was spanish dub with italian subs. Now I find a japanese dub with english sub, but it's fullscreen with network logos and tickertapes.
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[psiga]

I give up.


Two and two-thirds episodes in, I am sick of the main character's constant morally-biased prattling. Among other things.

Am I just not in an anime mood lately, or what?
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[alice]

[Gin]

Unless you really like the "YUU COPII?" "AI COPII-DESU!", don't watch the PlanetES anime. Manga is better, because it's not anime. At least, in this case.

[psiga]

Compared to BECK, the engrish in PlanetES is tame like a toothless kitten on dope. It's mostly that I'm sick of the main character girl who, at least twice every episode, bursts out with something like WHAT!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!! THAT IS DISRESPECTFUL OF HUMAN LOVE AND ENDEAVOR!!!!! WHY ARE YOU SO HEARTLESS!!!!!!!?!? I KNOW THAT I'M NEW BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE FOR WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO!!!!!!! YOU SHOULD NOT DO THAT!!!!

Add to this more bullshit stories.

They ACCIDENTALLY push a piece of sentimental space debris into the path of a civilian shuttle which COINCIDENTALLY happens to be piloted by a good friend. Exactly how this accidentally happens is stupid, and pisses me off, but I won't mention it, since I'm even more pissed off by the deus-ex-machina coincidence. The thing is, they know the EXACT trajectory of the shuttle and the debris, and there are minutes before any possible collision. The shuttle has time to put up some impact bumpers, but they never consider to just nudge the shuttle's trajectory up a little. The fact that they don't just move the shuttle a weeeeeee bit so that it will not hit the debris is ludicrous. A major, life-threatening, only-have-one-chance-omg endeavor is undertaken to nudge the debris off its course. Success is guaranteed, though, because they're only like three episodes in, so nobody important can die yet.

This fuck-you-stupid plot is immediately followed up by them being tasked to nab a piece of debris which happens to be a casket buried in space. They retrieve the casket, making very obvious note that the body appears to look like it's laughing. Okay. They contact the next-of-kin to decide what to do with the body. The daughter asks, gun-on-mantel, what expression is on her father's face. For you see, she dared not look at his face the last time she was by his side! She wants to know his expression! This is important, you see!

They tell her that he was laughing. She says that she understands. She says that he always adored space, so much so that he hardly spent time with his family. Was dedicated fully to his job as a pioneering astronaut, and burial in space was his final request. She says to please relaunch his casket into space, as he wished. So far I am liking this plot enough to forget about the first stupid plot.

Cue the girl:
WHAT!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!!! HOW COULD YOU SEND YOUR FATHER INTO SPACE!!!!!!!!!?!? A FATHER IS IMPORTANT!!!!! HE SHOULD BE NEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and I stopped the video before she was done ranting.
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[elmimmo]

This question is actually for Mr. 1^1·2^2·3^3 or someone that is reading manga in their original untranslated form.

As a somewhat related topic, how about throwing some recommendations about manga? My personal and admitedly not quite representative list of flexible requirements is:

• The purpose is putting my effort to something practical, i.e. trying to read some Japanese, at which I still suck, but anyway. I would be using a dictionary of course, but if it does not deal with quantum physics, all the better.
  
• Given the prior requisite, I put up with the story simply not sucking.
  
• If the story actually leads somewhere, instead of the thing having 400 pointless volumes, even greater.
  
• Preferably something not too new that I can easily find second hand in a Book Off or something

[Loki Laufeyson]

a friend gave me all of martian successor nadesico on tape, and it's awesome.
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[Quick Shot II Turbo]

This looks promising.
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